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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1921
Page
6
A historic notice from the Avalanche editors discusses editorial ambitions and reader engagement. It quotes L A S Koonce and Mark Twain, urging inspiration for better health intelligence education and local progress in Alpine. The piece contrasts talk versus action on weather and improvement.
A reflective line notes self deception in planning large enterprises. It cites Dr. Johnson on magnifying benefits to spur effort and underlines the common handicap of optimistic bias in mental judgment.
The United States Department of Agriculture lifts Texas from sheep scab quarantine effective April 15 1921. Texas counties released include Concho Crockett Edwards Kimble Menard Pecos Schleicher Sutton Terrell Tom Green and Valverde. Remaining quarantines affect California counties and Louisiana parishes with ship movement allowed only under official USDA rules.
An 11 line ad promises one hundred dollars reward for an incurable case of catarrh. It claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine, in use fifty five years, cleanses the blood and mucous surfaces to heal affected areas. It urges starting the medicine now for rapid improvement and lists F J Meyer Co of Toledo Ohio as sellers.
A dated column of wry humor and political speculation notes temperate gains from wartime reforms fading as new issues arise. It lampoons Prohibition, taxation, and public mood with anecdotes about a lonely salesman, a 30 inch arm and waist, and blunt social jabs.
Healthgrams warn fresh air is vital as food and advise consulting a doctor for long lasting colds. They urge protecting babies, cleaning meat markets, screening food premises, and condemning filth as a major enemy. Mothers should nurse and breast feeding is emphasized as superior to bottle feeding.
Austin reports many tuberculosis patients travel for treatment, per State Health Officer Dr Manton M Carrick. He says tuberculosis needs rest food fresh air and peace not climate change and that many early diagnoses are cured at home, reducing the need to seek higher altitudes elsewhere.
Dr Carrick notes patients face financial worry and homesickness after moving to new localities. The State Board of Health urges tubercular individuals to avoid leaving home unless financially able, arguing health and happiness are found at home.
Mrs C M Stegall of Paint Rock Alabama recounts a three year bedridden illness cured by Cardus after six bottles. She reports improved appetite sleep strength and full recovery noting many other women have used Cardus successfully for decades and recommending it to sufferers.
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